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Bristol Post
Bristol Post
Entertainment
Robin Murray

Legendary Bristol club The Dug Out is making a return for one night only

Many great Bristol clubs have come and gone over the decades but there’s one in particular which those of a certain generation all mourn the most.

Rewind 40 years and Chinese restaurant Great Chongqing on Park Row was a small club called The Dug Out. It was quite simply the place to be when it came to clubbing in Bristol and the club that famously gave birth to the 'Bristol Sound’.

Seen as both the spiritual and physical home of Bristol’s music scene to this day, it’s where many of the city’s most renowned acts made a name for themselves, most notably The Wild Bunch, who went on to become Massive Attack, and drum & bass DJ Roni Size.

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